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On 20/11/2016 02:59, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> An emerge of webkitgtk-2.14.2 has been running for over 2hrs. I |
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> wonder if I am starving my vbox vm of gentoo with 3GB or ram. |
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> Top's cpu usage is fluxuating between 45% and 99% during this compile |
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> Portage pulling 99% by itself at times. |
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> I thought 3GB was a bit high for a vm compared to what I've given debian |
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> vms... can anyone give some guidance about how much ram to allow a |
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> gentoo vm in Vbox? |
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> I'm on a windows 10 host with 32 GB ram but running a number of vms. |
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Depends on what you are compiling. webkitgtk is a brute, so is |
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thunderbird, libreoffice and other usual culprits. Those sorts of build |
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systems need as much ram as you can spare whereas the rest of the time |
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vm itself needs as much as it needs to do whatever it is you want it to do. |
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What hypervisor are you using, and can you use memory ballooning? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |